LEONARDO LEDESMA

Work History

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  Course Instructor

  Gnomon School of Visual Effects, Games + Animation

  October 2021 - Present

  Los Angeles, California, United States
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  Senior Lighting Artist

  HOGARTH

  July 2023 - January 2024

  Los Angeles County, California, United States · Re
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  Senior Lighting Artist

  SPIN VFX

  February 2023 - April 2023
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  Lead Lighting and Rendering

  Encore VFX

  April 2021 - February 2023
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  Lead Lighting and Lookdev artist

  Encore VFX

  October 2020 - June 2021

  Los Angeles, CA
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  Lighting Artist

  Encore VFX

  September 2020 - April 2021
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  Lookdev/Lighter Artist

  Method Studios

  August 2020 - September 2020

  Los Angeles, California, United States
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  cg generalist

  Pixomondo

  July 2018 - July 2020

  Los Angeles, CA

  • Light and render cg element.
  • Look development of assets to match concept
  and directors vision.
  • Match cg element to live action plate.
  • Model and UV assets and environments.
  • Texture elements to match concept.
  • Create and troubles
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  cg generalist

  3DExcite

  February 2018 - July 2018

  Los Angeles, CA

  • Optimize polygon data.
  • Light, render, texture cg assets.
  • Model, animate configurator.
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  3D artist

  3DExcite

  February 2018 - July 2018

  Torrance, California

• lighting technical director

  MPC - Vancouver

  September 2016 - September 2017

  Vancouver, Canada

  • Light and render cg element.
  • Look development of assets to match concept
  and directors vision.
  • Match cg element to live action plate.
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  Freelance 3D Artist

  4D Pipeline

  July 2016 - July 2017

  Greater Los Angeles Area
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  3D Artist Consultant at Honda

  3DEXCITE - Dassault Systèmes

  November 2015 - 2016

  Greater Los Angeles Area
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  Depth artist

  Stereo D

  January 2015 - June 2015

  Burbank, California

  -Complete stereo depth passes for assigned shots to established quality standards.
  
  -Together with stereo supervisor or the project’s lead stereo artists, evaluate the creative and
  technical approach for assigned shots.
  
  -Complete stereo depth passes with the use of proprietary tools within Nuke.
  
  -Create supplemental stereo elements in Nuke using various conversion techniques such as
  projection and displacement.
  
  -Tracking and rotoscoping duties.
  
  Films worked on
  Avengers Age of Ultron
  Mad Max Fury Road
  San Andreas
  Ant-Man